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NAME         top

       git-fetch-pack - Receive missing objects from another repository

SYNOPSIS         top

       git fetch-pack [--all] [--quiet|-q] [--keep|-k] [--thin] [--include-tag]
               [--upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>]
               [--depth=<n>] [--no-progress]
               [-v] <repository> [<refs>...]

DESCRIPTION         top

       Usually you would want to use git fetch, which is a higher level
       wrapper of this command, instead.

       Invokes git-upload-pack on a possibly remote repository and asks
       it to send objects missing from this repository, to update the
       named heads. The list of commits available locally is found out
       by scanning the local refs/ hierarchy and sent to git-upload-pack
       running on the other end.

       This command degenerates to download everything to complete the
       asked refs from the remote side when the local side does not have
       a common ancestor commit.

OPTIONS         top

       --all
           Fetch all remote refs.

       --stdin
           Take the list of refs from stdin, one per line. If there are
           refs specified on the command line in addition to this
           option, then the refs from stdin are processed after those on
           the command line.

           If --stateless-rpc is specified together with this option
           then the list of refs must be in packet format (pkt-line).
           Each ref must be in a separate packet, and the list must end
           with a flush packet.

       -q, --quiet
           Pass -q flag to git unpack-objects; this makes the cloning
           process less verbose.

       -k, --keep
           Do not invoke git unpack-objects on received data, but create
           a single packfile out of it instead, and store it in the
           object database. If provided twice then the pack is locked
           against repacking.

       --thin
           Fetch a "thin" pack, which records objects in deltified form
           based on objects not included in the pack to reduce network
           traffic.

       --include-tag
           If the remote side supports it, annotated tags objects will
           be downloaded on the same connection as the other objects if
           the object the tag references is downloaded. The caller must
           otherwise determine the tags this option made available.

       --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>
           Use this to specify the path to git-upload-pack on the remote
           side, if it is not found on your $PATH. Installations of sshd
           ignores the user’s environment setup scripts for login shells
           (e.g. .bash_profile) and your privately installed git may not
           be found on the system default $PATH. Another workaround
           suggested is to set up your $PATH in ".bashrc", but this flag
           is for people who do not want to pay the overhead for
           non-interactive shells by having a lean .bashrc file (they
           set most of the things up in .bash_profile).

       --exec=<git-upload-pack>
           Same as --upload-pack=<git-upload-pack>.

       --depth=<n>
           Limit fetching to ancestor-chains not longer than n.
           git-upload-pack treats the special depth 2147483647 as
           infinite even if there is an ancestor-chain that long.

       --shallow-since=<date>
           Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
           include all reachable commits after <date>.

       --shallow-exclude=<revision>
           Deepen or shorten the history of a shallow repository to
           exclude commits reachable from a specified remote branch or
           tag. This option can be specified multiple times.

       --deepen-relative
           Argument --depth specifies the number of commits from the
           current shallow boundary instead of from the tip of each
           remote branch history.

       --refetch
           Skips negotiating commits with the server in order to fetch
           all matching objects. Use to reapply a new partial clone
           blob/tree filter.

       --no-progress
           Do not show the progress.

       --check-self-contained-and-connected
           Output "connectivity-ok" if the received pack is
           self-contained and connected.

       -v
           Run verbosely.

       <repository>
           The URL to the remote repository.

       <refs>...
           The remote heads to update from. This is relative to $GIT_DIR
           (e.g. "HEAD", "refs/heads/master"). When unspecified, update
           from all heads the remote side has.

           If the remote has enabled the options
           uploadpack.allowTipSHA1InWant,
           uploadpack.allowReachableSHA1InWant, or
           uploadpack.allowAnySHA1InWant, they may alternatively be
           40-hex sha1s present on the remote.

SEE ALSO         top

       git-fetch(1)

GIT         top

       Part of the git(1) suite

COLOPHON         top

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